Box for storing furs



March 1,1927.

H. MULLER BOX FOR STORING FURS Filed July a, 1926 2' Sheets-Sheet 1 Patented Mar. 1, 1927.

PATENT OFFICE.

HANS MTTTLLER, 0F MUNICH, GERMANY.

BOX FOR STORING FURS.

Application filed July 8, 1926, Serial No.

This invention relates to a box for storing furs so that they are securely protected against moths. This box saves the expenses for preserving furs in store rooms and it is easy to manipulate, of light weight, cheap to manufacture, occupies little space and of great durability.

The box for storing furs consists of a frame of wooden laths covered with plates of wood ends. The lid consists also of a frame filled with a plate of wood ends said frame being guided by a tongue and groove guiding in the lathe of the frames of the short sides of the box and engaging with a groove in the top lath of one long side. .The lid is locked in the closing position by means of a chub-lock and of a tongue which is arranged on a bar fixed to a lath of the rear long side and designed to engage with a groove of the lath of the long side of the box frame. The joints of the lid are thus secured against penetration of dust and moths. On the inner surface of one short side of the box hooks or the like are fixed on which the furs can be suspended, and for holding fur-jackets an arm is hingedly fixed on the one long side of the box at half the height of the same, said arm being supported by an abutment on the opposite wall.

An embodiment of the invention is shown, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows in front elevation the closed fur box. 1

Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

Fig. 3 is a section on line IIIIII of Fig.1.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the fur box the lid having been removed.

Fig. 5 illustrates how the lid is guided in the upper and lower short side of the box.

The fur box consists of a frame made from wooden laths a covered With plates Z) of wood ends. The plates might be varnished. They are of greater durability than the commonly used walls of cardboard, hard wood, leather, fibre or the like and possess greater resistance against cracking.

The lid consists of a frame covered with 121,151, and in Germany March 17, 1926.

a plate 0 of wood ends. The laths d of the frame at the short sides of the lid are guided by tongueand groove in the frame laths e and the long lath f of the slidable lid and that of the frame 9 have also tongue and groove. On the long lath h of the slidable lid a bar m is .tixed which has a tongue is engaging with a groove Z of the lath 2' of the box-frame. A chub-lock n with hinged eye 0 serves to lock the lid in the closed position. A handle 7) is sunk into the long lath it of the lid.

On the inner surface of the short side hooks e are fixed to which furs are to be suspended. At half the height of the long sides of the box a rod 8 is hingedly fixed which rests upon an abutment on the opposite long side and is designed to hold short fur jackets or the like. Front ledges u are fixed on the outer surface of one short side and on the rear long side to protect the box against damage.

The box,if it is in horizontal position, rests upon the front ledges in the back Wall, and in this case the furs can be placed into the box as into a trunk.

Alder wood is preferably used for the plates.

A fur box comprising in combination a frame of wooden laths forming the back, the two long sides and the two short sides, the top lath of thetwo short sides and of the one long side having each a groove in the inner surface, plates of alder wood ends filling said frame, a lid consisting of a frame of wood laths covered with a plate of alder wood, a tongue on the lath of each short side of the frame and on the lath of the inner long side said tongues being designed to engage with said grooves in the top laths of the box frame, a chub-lock for locking said lid in the closed position, a bar fixed in the long side of said lid frame and engaging with the groove of the lath of the corresponding long side of the box frame.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

HANS MULLER. 

